Why Place Matters Vocab Flashcards

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Define Globalizaiton

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The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

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Define Commerce

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The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.

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Define Tenuous

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Very weak or slight.

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Define Fungible

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(Of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical term; mutually interchangeable.

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Define Evident

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Plain or obvious

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Define Plausible

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(Of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.

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Define Corporeal

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Relating to a person’s body; especially as opposed to their spirit.

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Define Finite

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Having limits or bounds.

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Define Embodiment

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A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality, or feeling.

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Define Ungainly

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(Of a person or movement) awkward; clumsy.

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Define Calamity

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An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

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Define Cultivation

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The process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.

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Define Virtues

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Behavior showing high moral standards.

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Define Evade

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Escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.

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Define Tangible

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Perceptible by touch.

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Define Persist

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Continue firmly or obstinately in an opinion or a course of action in spite of difficulty, opposition, or failure.

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Define Substantial

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Of considerable size, importance, or worth.

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Define Bereft

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Deprived or lacking (something).

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Define Uprooted

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Move (someone) from their home or a familiar location.

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Define Wither

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Fall into decay or decline.

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Define Primeval

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Of or resembling the earliest stages in the history of the world.

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Define Melodramatic

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Characteristic of melodrama, especially in being exaggerated, sensationalized, or overemotional.

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Define Dynamic

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( of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress.

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Define Pervasive

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(Especially of an unwelcome influence or physical effect) spreading widely throughout an area or group of people.

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Define Fluidity
Changeability; the state of being unsettled or unstable.
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Define Panoply
A complétele or impressive collection of things.
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Define Transient
Lasting for a short time; impermanent.
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Define Provisional
Arranged or existing for the presento possibly to be changed later.
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Define Sustenance
The maintaining of someone or something in life or existence.
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Define Encircle
Surround.
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Define Abstract
Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
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Define Palpable.
(Of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible.
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Define Flatfooted
Clumsy, awkward, or uninspired.
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Define Inherent
Existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.
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Define Phenomenological
Denoting or relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.
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Define Frenetic
Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way.
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Define Porous
Not retentive or secure.
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Define Inexorable
Impossible to stop or prevent.
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Define Coherent
United as or forming a whole.
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Define Orient
Adjust or tailor (something) to specified circumstances or needs.
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Define Resilient
(Of a person) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions